The act of taking initiative and meeting people can massively change the course of your life. Meeting people should be taken in a positive light. You should not take it personally if the person you meet does not react in a positive manner.

1. Take Small Actions And Meet Others

2. When I Was In Law School I Was Standing In A Bar One Day…
And the most beautiful girl I had seen around campus walked up to me and
said:
“I am just wondering why you have never come up to
me and tried to talk to me. Every other guy I see around
at parties does this.”

3. Five Years Later We Were Married
She was right, I might have never walked up
to her and introduced myself, had she not
taken this action herself. Imagine for a
moment if she had not walked up to me. The
course of both of our lives would have been
radically different.

4. The Idea That Our Lives Can Literally Be Transformed By…
these small actions is something that amazes me because
it happens all the time and everywhere. Who we become,
what we do and what happens with our lives is often controlled by small
actions of stepping up and meeting various individuals that we normally
might not choose to meet.

5. Your Greatest Successes Will Come From Taking Some Of…
The smallest actions in terms of meeting people. In
meeting one person you can literally change the course of
your career and life. It is the small action of meeting new
people and introducing yourself to others that is going to
transform your destiny.

6. It is almost impossible for any one person to
shape the outcome of their life without the
assistance of others.

7. We Need Others In Order To Reach Our Full Potential
The more people you can meet and connect with,
the more of a “stacking effect” this is going to
have. People are something that you need to
really reach your full potential in anything.

8. I Have Hired Hundreds Of People Throughout My Career
I have also gotten thousands of people jobs. There have
been several occasions in my career when someone has
walked up to me and said something such as:
“Hello Harrison. I am really familiar with your work
and would love to work with you. I want nothing
more that to work with you, and would love to sit
down with you and discuss a future with you.”

9. This Has Happened Before. However, It Has Not Happened That
Often.
When this has happened the people who
have simply approached me with profound
interest in working for me, have more often
than not been hired. I hire them because I
know that they are committed and they have
gone out of their way to meet me and speak
with me about working for me. This is a huge
risk people take; sometimes it is not
rewarded and others times it is. Most of the
time it is.

10. You Simply Cannot Take It Personally If People to Do Not React…
Positively to you when you walk up to them. You just keep moving on. The
best people socially do this because they know the rewards for meeting
people and forming friendships and connections, far outweigh the drawbacks
of not making connections.

11. I Remember Several Month Ago My Wife And I Were At My
Daughter’s…
Preschool and she started talking to a woman who
seemed quite aloof and had a lot of confidence. My
wife was being extremely nice to her and doing
everything within her power to make a connection. As
we were leaving my wife told the woman she would
love to get together shortly and tried to exchange
contact information with the woman.
To my astonishment, the woman blew off my wife, and
did not provide any information. She also avoided the
invitation to get together.

12. “Sure! I Understand”
My wife said smiling.
My wife has tons of friends and is an extremely happy person. She did
not appear to care one bit that the woman blew her off. My wife
makes friend wherever she goes, and she understands that some
people are simply going to be rude.

13. A Few Weeks Later I Was Looking Through A Magazine…
And saw the woman who had blown her off in the society section of the
magazine together with various celebrities and others. This woman
apparently moved in some “important” circles, and felt like she needed
to be “aloof” from my wife. Who cares? It is not something to worry
about.

14. When I Was In High School I Went Out Of My Way To Meet…
The admissions officer of the college I wanted to go to and spent
time getting to know him. This paid off and I got into my first choice
college. When I was in college I went out of my way to meet the admissions officer
of my first choice law school and got to know him as well. This paid off and I got
into my first choice law school.

15. Something That I Have Noticed Is That Many People Are…
clammed up.
They are afraid to go outside of the shell they are in. I can think of many times
in my own life where I have been like this. However, it is the times when I
have not been clammed up and have allowed myself to open up and
introduce myself to new people, places and things that my life and career
have been transformed. Thinking back on this, the occasions where I have
opened up have been more rare and infrequent than the times where I have
been withdrawn.

16. What you need to realize is that when you are withdrawn
nothing is going to happen. People cannot approach you
when you are withdrawn, and you cannot connect with
people when you are withdrawn, either. Nothing happens
to people who are withdrawn.

17. How Many People Have You Walked Up To In Your Life And…
Introduced yourself to, only to find years later
that they are a part of your life? People are
something that can transform us and bring a
tremendous amount of depth to our lives.
We need to make the extra call. Go the extra
distance to meet people. Make the extra
contact. You need to do everything within your
power to connect with as many people as
possible. This is the key to really making things
happen in your life. This is what is going to
change who you become and where you go.

18. Much Of Life And What We Do Is Controlled By And Occurs In
Small Moments
Many of the smallest moments out there are something that can have a profound
impact on the course of our lives. It is the small things that we do, and the small risks
that we take that often have the largest impact on our lives and what happens to us.
In our lives it is incredibly important that we create these small moments that are
going to impact our lives.

19. I Have So Many Small Moments In My Life…
that have changed the course of my life and career. So many
small decisions that have changed the course of my destiny. You too likely have
many of these small moments in your life, and it is these small moments that
you have created in the past and will create in the future that will shape your
destiny.

20. I Want You To Think About Some Of The…
small moments in your life that have shaped who you are and who you
have become:
Introducing yourself to a spouse
Meeting someone for the first time
Sending an application to an employer
Deciding to go somewhere
Deciding to take or not take a job
These small actions can all change who you become and what
happens to your life. One simple act of introducing yourself to
someone can make a massive difference. Get outside of your
shell and meet others.